Re: [netmod] IANA modules

[Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>]

Martin Bjorklund píše v St 10. 04. 2019 v 15:15 +0200:
> Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Martin Bjorklund píše v St 10. 04. 2019 v 14:26 +0200:
> > > Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > in a discussion in the yang-doctors mailing list, Acee noted that
> > > > IANA probably hasn't yet implemented a procedure for updating YANG
> > > > modules corresponding to IANA registries
> > > 
> > > I think that this is a false alarm.  IANA updates the modules
> > > according to the process.
> > > 
> > > > (such a procedure is
> > > > specified, e.g., in the IANA Considerations section of RFC 7224). It
> > > > indeed seems to be the case - for example, a few new interface types
> > > > have been added recently to
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/ianaiftype-mib/ianaiftype-mib
> > > > 
> > > > but the module iana-if-type only exists in revision 2014-05-08.
> > > 
> > > See
> > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml
> > > 
> > > The latest version is [e-mail]
> > > 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/[e-mail]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > A part of the problem may be that there is AFAIK no authoritative
> > > > repository for
> > > > YANG modules where IANA could put the new revisions.
> > > 
> > > See
> > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml
> > > 
> > > This is the authoritative repo.  IANA gets new YANG modules directly
> > > from the RFC editor before they are formatted into the ascii RFC.
> > 
> > Hmm, but then it is kept pretty secret:
> > 
> > - RFC 6020 only specifies the new registry "YANG Module Names" and media
> types
> > in IANA Considerations, not this authoritative module repository.
> 
> RFC 6020 defines the registry.  IANA maintains the registry.  The link
> above is the link to this registry.  If you go to iana.org and search
> for "YANG Module Names" this link is the first to be shown.

According to RFC 6020, it is "a registry for YANG module and submodule names".
Maybe I am ignorant, but I really didn't know that complete modules can also be
retrieved. Also, it seems that only the most recent revision of the iana-*
modules is kept there.

> 
> 
> > - YANG Catalog doesn't know about the recent revisions of iana-if-type.
> 
> That's a completely different issue!

Of course, but it shows that learning about existing modules & revisions (even
the standard ones) isn't particularly easy.

Lada

> 
> 
> /martin
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